Help? FBX RA2011 to MAXD2011

[r.grandmaison]

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?p=1079956#post1079956

I don't want to cross post, but I coudl really use some help with the above issue...I'm hoping you Reviteers here might see it here and have some remedy for me before/if the MAX crowd does.

[redfish]

I had a similar issue. The culprit was RPC content. Not exporting RPC content from Revit solved the immediate issue.

FBX 2011.3 and the Max Design hotfix apparently solved this issue. I don't currently use RPCs in Max so I can't confirm, but I can confirm that it no longer creates an empty scene if RPCs are a part of the Revit FBX export.

Make sure you've uninstalled previous FBX versions.

[bryanl]

We had the same issue here and not exporting the RPC content seemed to take care of the issue. We ended up just putting in our RPC trees and cars in while we were working in 3D Max Design. We also downloaded the 14 day trial from Archivision for their RPC Content plug-in. The Archivision plug-in used to be free in previous versions of Max but you have to pay for it now in 2011.

[ws]

Same as Bryanl's experience, now fixed with 3dsMD 2011 hotfix plus SP1 for rac2011 and fbx2011.3

The additional issue of >300 rpcs in the Revit folder preventing rac2011 working is supposedly not fixed in SP1 but I have not had time to check that yet.

Xfrog trees are reputedly better than rpcs anyway - there are some free ones on Autodesk seek that I've downloaded and must try out.